No it isn’t.

She doesn’t seem helpless at all now. She’s been set up as being more capable now, but last night’s scene with Myranda was the first time I thought, aw hell yeah, she’s going to play these fools something serious. I very much doubt her place in the arc is as Ramsay’s victim the same way she was Joffrey’s victim. The…

Yep. But that scene not only spared us the sight of her actually being raped, it sowed the seed for Reek turning into Theon again.

Or they could have been showing us what makes Reek determined to be Theon again and try to help Sansa even though he’s so thoroughly cowed that Ramsay felt comfortable delivering the news about Robb Stark’s death while having Reek shave him.

Tbh I don’t think your interpretation was the point of showing Theon’s face. I think it was more just to have a little mercy on the viewers since it was such a fucked-up scene already, the actress is so young and she’s such a beloved character. I really didn’t need to see more than they showed. And if Theon was the…

It benefits Littlefinger to set the Boltons and Stannis against each other, so that he can go in there with the knights of the Vale after the worst is over in the name of the crown, and be named Warden of the North for doing hardly anything at all. Leaving Sansa at Winterfell was the one thing absolutely guaranteed to…

That is predicated on the idea that Littlefinger was taking Sansa to the Boltons for any reason other than to further his own ends, which he was not.

So it didn’t take long for the people who find a way to complain about absolutely everything to suggest that showing Theon’s face was a way of making it about “manfeels,” rather than sparing Sophie Turner and the viewer the actual sight of her being raped.

Would you have preferred a closeup on her agonized face? Or Ramsay’s delighted one? Or perhaps something that showed the action?

yeah, but if they showed her face (which would likely be contorted by tears and pain), then people might (and not unjustly) complain that it was eroticizing her rape while being too disturbing and graphic.

Actually, I feel like having to listen to her crying and crying out off-camera almost made it worse (and also because Theon has seen Ramsay do some awful shit to women, and this is the first time I recall him crying about it). I almost feel like keeping the camera on Sansa would have made it a bit too much.

That was my initial reaction, but then I thought, did I really want to see Sansa’s face? And no, no I didn’t.

I’m still sorting out my feelings about that scene, but I really couldn’t watch Sansa’s face any longer and was a tiny bit relieved when they switched to Theon. It was still so disturbing, but I feel it would have been worse to keep the camera on Sansa. Also maybe they want to show that Theon is having enough of…

If other viewers are like me, it wasn’t really about how he feels. I honestly didn’t feel much for him, because the shit was happening to her but... I was wondering if it was going to break him and he’d just kill Ramsey. I think the closeup on Theon was more about curiosity rather than empathy.
That’s just went through…

I'm rooting for Sansa to snap and rally her friends in the north, going on a murderous rampage killing all the Boltons. Doesn't seem likely but that's what I want.

What has five hands and is that conflicted?

His brother Zach Braff?

They were both working on an MTV event. Diddy was punctual, nice, gracious, professional and had one assistant, just two dudes chilling in Diddy’s trailer. Timberlake had a massive entourage and behaved like a whiny bitchy the entire time. He had two dozen people running around catering to his every whim. Mind you,…

That sucks. Hope you feel better. I left a couple out. Maybe this will make you feel better.

He hasn’t. I read an interview with him while he was promoting “Inglorious Basterds” and he PROUDLY talked about how he used baby wipes instead of taking showers. And just look at him! Pitt looks like the greasier version of that loser Tory Spelling is married to. Even Brad’s hat looks like it was pulled out of a…